A jungle ranger in the Amazon pauses to rest during a search for survivors of a crashed rocket dirigible. Unscrupulous rescuers would sometimes soak desperate lost billiars for hundreds of millions of credits. Turnabout, as they say… Note the long sensor feelers and detector drone, equipment that became common with dense jungle explorers.
Technicians on Io repair one of the thousands of detection stations set up all over the moon. Used to monitor atmosphere, seismic activity, airspace incursions, and weather, the harsh conditions caused frequent breakdowns, despite multiple redundant systems and healtech. Superstitious astronauts posited that the gremios, imaginary little gremlin people of Io, were infiltrating the machinery and causing service disruptions.
Warfare was conducted increasingly by remote drones, which led to an escalation in electronic warfare until supplies ran out.
Explorer and adventurer Philipe Samsa atop the Argelus Crest, looking out over the lifeless plain that would one day be verdant farm land.
Samsa would even live to see it.
A monumental bust of Hierophant Shankar VI, leader of the Telepate, a faction of intellectually enhanced mutants living in the vast underground city-malls of New Jersey. The tunnels were extensive even before the bioengineered Borerwyrms. The Telepates learned to mentally control these great wyrms, and expanded their domain ten fold. They built dozens of mall-temples dedicated to high end consumer goods, protected by deadly traps and fast food replibooths.
